Dr. Julien Gorenflot is a research scientist in charge of developing FAIR (Findable Accessible Interoperable Reusable) data in the division of Physical Science and Engineering in KAUST. 15 years of research in the field of photovoltaics made him realize how powerful, yet how impossible, it is to assemble data across projects, across laboratories, across universities. As a matter of fact results can barely be re-used past their initial publication, a major obstacle to their transfer to industrial applications. Other critical problems are the lack of verifiability of results, fueling the current reproducibility and retraction crisis and a gradual lost of trust in science. Realizing that this all comes down to a lack of consistency in data collection and transmission, he is now dedicating himself to defining standards and formats in close collaboration with the FAIRmat consortium in Germany, implementing them at the heart of experimental setups with the help of their users, training users and raising awareness on the critical question of research data management.